Four migrants died on Sunday after trying to swim to Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta from northern Morocco, the government in Rabat said. “The interior ministry deplores the deaths on Sunday of four illegal sub-Saharan immigrants off the town of Belyounech,” said a ...

Spain said Wednesday that it is trying to establish what happened to three Spanish freelance journalists who vanished around the embattled northern Syrian city of Aleppo. A fourth journalist, a Japanese national, also is presumed missing in Syria. Justice Minister Rafael Catala told Spain’s ...

Forest blazes in Spain have ravaged more than 15,000 hectares this week as the country chokes in a record heat wave at the start of its wildfire season, officials said Thursday. At least 10 major blazes have broken out around the country as temperatures ...

Spanish fishermen in the Strait of Gibraltar have kept alive a 3,000-year-old netting tradition that brings in tuna so tasty, buyers come for it all the way from Japan. Silence falls as the fishermen on board their orange and blue boats stop calling out ...

This 430,000-year-old case may be the world’s oldest murder mystery. Scientists on Wednesday said a fossilized skull discovered deep inside a Spanish cave shows telltale signs of homicide: two fractures inflicted by the same weapon. The skull, belonging to a primitive member of the ...

Airbus on Tuesday carried out the first test flight of a new A400M since one of the military transport planes crashed in Spain over the weekend, killing four people. In a sign of the company’s confidence in the plane, the boss of Airbus Military, ...

Spanish police have arrested two people in the northeastern city of Barcelona for allegedly posting pro-Islamic State group videos and propaganda on the Internet. An Interior Ministry statement on Tuesday said the two used several Internet identities to promote the armed Islamic group’s jihad. ...

Police found an 8-year-old Cote d’Ivoire boy hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border into Spanish territory in North Africa, an official said Friday. A 19-year-old woman took the case through a pedestrian crossing from Morocco into the small Spanish-governed territory ...

The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 4525 tried a controlled descent on the previous flight that morning to Barcelona before the plane crashed into a mountainside in March on its way back to Germany, French air accident investigators said in a new report released Wednesday. ...

A fire broke out on a ferry off Spain’s Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of 156 passengers and crew in lifeboats and injuring three crew members, officials said. The ferry operated by Trasmediterranea was traveling from Palma de Mallorca, ...

Former Spanish King Juan Carlos had an affair with a German aristocrat 28 years younger than him for the last 10 years of his reign, according to a new book about the monarch’s “double life” that is flying off Spanish bookshelves. The king, who ...

To improve airline safety, maybe we need to remove the pilots. That radical idea is decades away, if it ever becomes a reality. But following the intentional crashing of Germanwings Flight 9525 by the copilot, a long-running debate over autonomous jets is resurfacing. At ...